"From "quite possibly the best historical novelist we have" (Philadelphia Inquirer), the fourth Joe Wilderness spy thriller, moving from Red Scare-era Washington, DC to a KGB prison near Moscow's Kremlin. In Moscow Exile, John Lawton departs from his usual stomping grounds of Eng...
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"Smoke and Embers is the ninth installment of the beloved Inspector Troy series, and opens in 1950, when Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Troy learns that his sergeant has been conducting an affair with the known mistress of infamous London racketeer Otto Ohnherz. Troy is immediatel...
"It is 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Britain, is not looking forward to a Continental trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod was too vain to celebrate being fifty so instead takes h...
In 1963, freelance private investigator Joe Wilderness, a former MI6 agent and black market con artist, agrees to one last Berlin scam, which involves smuggling people, and brings his World War II gang of accomplices together once again.
"1938. Frederick Troy is newly promoted to CID. Hitler invades Austria. Troy's big brother Rod covers Berlin for the Post and cannot wait to get to Vienna. Meanwhile the Germans rob the Jews blind, want them to leave but put every obstacle in their way ... they sail down the Danu...
Directed by MI6 to Berlin in 1963 to negotiate a delicate prisoner exchange on either side of the wall, Joe Wilderness covertly plans to use the operation to make a little something extra on the side, with unexpected results.
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE UNFORTUNATE ENGLISHMAN, ISBN 9780802123992. The third 'Joe Wilderness' spy thriller from John Lawton, moving from icy Finland to tumultuous Cold War Prague, 'Hammer to Fall' is a tale of vodka smuggling and a legendary female Red Army general who is p...
"One vital piece of equipment has been a constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure--the sketchbook or journal. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences, insight, and discovery, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. H...
Chasing a draft dodger in the turbulent summer of 1969, private eye Turner Raines is embroiled in the death of his oldest friend, whose demise is overshadowed by unresolved family dynamics and secrets from Vietnam.
England in 1963 is a country set to explode. The old guard, shocked by the habits of the war baby youth - sex, drugs, and rock and roll - sets out to fight back. While Inspector Troy is on medical leave, the Yard brings charges against an acquaintance of his, a hedonistic doctor ...
Imagines the search for faith experienced by the ten-year-old blind daughter of John Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim's Progress," during her father's imprisonment for preaching found contrary to the edicts of the Church of England.
It is 1938 with Europe on the brink of war. In London, Frederick Troy, newly promoted to the prestigious Murder Squad at Scotland Yard, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian "enemy aliens" that also includes Frederick's brother, Rod, who learns he is Austri...
DS Frederick Troy is forced to enter a corrupt world of bloody consequences, stateless refugees, and mysterious women as he unearths a chain of secrets leading straight to Allied high command.
"This collection of essays on the religious themes in, and the implications of, the works of Joss Whedon addresses such topics as ethics, racism, feminism, politics, spiritual transformation, witchcraft, identity, community, heroism, apocalypse, and others. The disciplinary appro...
When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, he reasoned, then they must, at some point, have been on top o...
An old flame has returned to Troy's life, and Joey Rork is hired to make sure her liaisons don't ruin her husband's career. But before Rork can find out, he meets a gruesome end, and he isn't the only one.